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The Lapedo Child: twenty years afterwards

Leiria Museum, Convento de Santo Agostinho Rua Tenente Valadim, nº 41, Leiria, Portugal

It is now almost 20 years since the discovery here in Portugal, in December 1998, of the Lapedo child skeleton (LV1). This finding was extremely important for human phylogeny history and triggered a series of debates in the scientific community. In fact, some of the features of the skeleton suggested that the LV1 fossil resulted from interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern human populations. An international team with several […]